re: #90 Buck

And what do you think the origin of Jewish dietary laws is?

The real origin? That if you follow them, you have better health than you would otherwise, if you’re living in bronze-age conditions in the Levant.

These days, that’s no longer true, and following kosher laws makes nutrition more problematic than it would be otherwise.

So it’s actually a pretty good example of how religious practice persists beyond the actual rational reason for it, right?